A contribution to the understanding of the role of the superego in dreams: Further development of an approach to dreams in analytic group psychotherapy

Edwards, Nancy

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A contribution to the understanding of the role of the superego in dreams: Further development of an approach to dreams in analytic group psychotherapy

Nancy Edwards¹

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“…As I stated in a previous paper (Edwards, 1980), despite the prominent place theorists have given to the concept of unconscious ego-ideal and its intimate connection with primary narcissism and all object relationships, this idea has been relatively underplayed in the group psychotherapy literature. This is puzzling if one considers Freud's emphasis on its importance in ~Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego" (1921).…”

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The theoretical position of this paper is that the essential character of the ego-ideal, a part of superego functioning, is unconscious, universal, and The root of the unconscious ego-ideal is the infantile illusion of omnipotence and feelings intimately connected with this state. For the infant, the essence of reality is his or her own weakness and dependency on the mother, which shatters this blissful fantasy. Narrowing the hiatus between feeling all powerful and feeling helpless is a lifelong struggle. This paper will focus on this phenomenon in analytic group therapy, its appearance as an entity, and therapeutic attempts to bring the ego and the unconscious ego-ideal into a more realistic and harmonious balance. In a former paper, I stressed the important role of the group leader in this process (Edwards, 1983); now I wish to attend more exclusively to the group members' contributions to this process.The theoretical position of my presentation is that the essential character of the ego-ideal, a part of super-ego functioning, is unconscious and functions Copyright,

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Discussion of Dr. Nancy Edwards' paper: ?The Ego-Ideal, The Leader and Analytic Group Psychotherapy?

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The theoretical position of this paper is that the essential character of the ego-idea~ a part of superego functioningThe concept of the unconscious ego-ideal appears to be one of a foreigner to the field of group psychology. This is ironic when one considers the fact that Freud emphasized its importance in "Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego" (1921). His very last line reads, "Neuroses are extraordinarily rich in content, for they embrace all possible relations between the ego and the object-both those in which the object is retained and others in which it is abandoned or erected inside the ego itself-and also the conflicting relations between the ego and the ego-ideal." He compared the states of, "being in love, of hypnosis, of group formation, and of neuroses" {p. 142}. His inferences and conclusions are that the hypnotist and the group leader, i.e., "the object," are put in place of the ego-ideal. He sees the group as magnifying this process by adding an identification with other individuals who all originally had the same relationship with "the object" or a leader or leaders. The idealization of the leader is increased by the simultaneous projections onto the leader of the group members' ego-ideals.

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A contribution to the understanding of the role of the superego in dreams: Further development of an approach to dreams in analytic group psychotherapy

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

The unconscious ego-ideal and analytic group psychotherapy

The unconscious ego-ideal and analytic group psychotherapy

Discussion of Dr. Nancy Edwards' paper: ?The Ego-Ideal, The Leader and Analytic Group Psychotherapy?

The ego-ideal, the leader and analytic group psychotherapy

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